The Sun. — London, England, 1808-12-31 00:00:00

PORTEIG,E)ESE pdPL'R,S„ SECOND EDITION. SUN-OFFICE, THREE O'CLOCK, We stop the Press to state,•:that, private Letters ve been received this ,naprp„ic I frpc9,_ ling that Marshal SOULT was'" lit :; Sa until ',' `? fit ti • ..•-rttalib ^,...01* :it ,n(it . o divisions, of the' FrenehiArrny,bowyatititirtgrito , out 20,000 men, and is 4as alsO l3 lctign.' l3 itat he d received orders to advance witkitlis free,- for e purpose of attacicing the !rovince of Galicia. • This important Fad was arertained by means of inter4;epted letter, which was fouktdoinFthe pocket 1.,'. an A ide-c!e-Camp of BuoNAT44,s,,,Jw.hqbAyas Iled b y the Peasants, iarshal SOULT should;.l9E9psprinence. of •. is or der, advance upon Galicia, fii - vvi)l tall in ,ith t. ae 'united Armies of Sir JOHN Moons, Sir Ayr; ) BAIRD, and 'the Marquis Ds LA ROMANA. 'e a however, rather apprehensive that when he . • • :art , of tliejkinelion of those armies, he will deem a 4 svisable to retreat. n the pearl time, we are happy ,to learn from I' se letters (on the authority ,of which we place e utmost reliance), that General Meoan had ven orders to his Army to advance. We not know the route he meant to take, but would probably advance upon Valladolid, so as place himself direly in the rear of the French 1, my. Our Troops were in the highest health and spi- ;, and impatient to have a meeting with the - • a _mci). ib[: ;)l ')? THE SUN. 7:1".7._1" lOLIM QUIT AVISS4T L 0 N D 0 Pio .;,,, • SATURDAY ) DECEMBER 3 pO - • •••-,-) THIS morning Colonel' at''Lord ASTLEBEAGI-eS ()Mee froch I„.i . si l Qwhich place he ft two days after Mr. LEE. The substance of the lielli B ence which this ,Gentleman has brought hap at yet transpired. have also been received .from. Lord !OLLINGWOOD and from Sir C. COTTON. • WE were yesterday enabled to communicate to lr readers intelligence from Corunna of as late ,a rte as' the brotiGht by theSy:allow Sloop War,- which arrived at Plyfnouth the day before !sterday. Grovel-anent have — hat received by this 'essel• any Dispatches dire& from Sir Join MOORE Sir DAVID BAIRD, put a Letter has beer. received r. * the Admiralty, from Admiral DE Coußcy, in rhich Le states, that he had received Letter from' it D. IlAtan, dated the 17th,- stating, that he was n the pUint of 'forming a jonEtion with Sir Joss loona, and that he Meant 'to go to.,bib94-clitiar-. !rs the next. Xnortiing, Which ycerg r ,a4ctur2f.miles istant, The . position,OccupiedtVp4llbnnitkdArny xtends from Benevento to Toro .. yio .the ti tJa trqUis DE LA ROMANA has advantealvtowArdi .urgos. If Sir JoHN MOORE should deem it' ex edient to advanCe in the same diredion, he will be . . ompletely in the rear of the French, .and Would, of ourse, be able to cnt off their :supplies and rein n-cements. ~sYt9.' b9lty~ Cii V. 7 A Proclamation frorn Lisbon, davtlAbe ? 4 - 1 1 0 21 " f ~ i 6le2aih""" ;overnment, December 9, was r c e • • It calls on the whole Nation toliie in.a rap their Country, and oppose an insurmount . - • barricr against the French. . • Ise Lisbon Gazette, of the 13th of Decembdr, contains a ll.. , creeisitted by the Council of War; nd 'date:l;llth 'December, requiring the w hole Por airrese people to arm themselvesin every manner their power, and especially with pike of six or even feet in lelth. Tl►e4a4iiitary tEilwerocirs . of he ProyirweS are reilne‘iedlo , oot and trans lit 'lists of Such perio4 as, ,by their afacOty , and . . . , bilities; are proper to receive a s cornmand. This corral armiiig is to include all Personi from the ge o f 16 to 60. LISBON, DEC. 19.—His Majesty's,ahip Lavinia, arrived yesterday, with General CRADDOCK, to take ,the command of the army. She brings intelligence of La !Aire's having exchanged a brOad;tde with French 74, in the Bay of Biscay, anal - of the Anze lityses' having taken a _French Frigate.. Where• is !reason to believe that there are several-trench Ships of War on thesoast, 3ooking out for,the homeward .boend Brazil Merchantmen, and Sir CHA,RLES COTTON has sent some Cruisers in search of the - n. - -• SHE GOVERNOR 07711 E KINGDOM TQ TIIE PORZ-U -GUESE NATION . . ":PoaTuot:EsE---If - the Governors of the King dom' have hitherto - observ....4 with silence the adMi-- 1-We efforts 'of your admired 'heroism; and :yOur t fidelity, they haye not tear one single moment ornit• ted to appreciate the exertions 'made by your pa triotiSm to restore . our national 'independence.— P‘rotl:i lour own irbpUlSe; you, Port uguese,colleed in the North and South, and with the powerful and -decisive assistance of tritish Armies, the lofty Ea_. gleS of the Tyrant, who wished to impose on you an iron yoke,- were fortAtyttely borne down to the . . ground. In vain his treacherous Generals had caused the Portugutse Troops to, march to France, annihi lated the Army, disarmed the Nation, gutted - the' Public Chests, and Arsenals, and divided the For tunes of Private Individuals ;* all his perfidious de ! . Signs were of no avail ; your Ibve for your' Religion, your Sovereign, and yonr.Country disconcerted them -„ • all. Yes, .Portuguese, you have immortalized your. name; 'Spain and Portugal have ,known how to re sist the Tyrant, who has subdued the whole North of Europe, and enchained the people of Italy. The Peninsula was the rock where the forces of DUPONT were shattered; who, in the deliriuth of his .pride, dared to Style himself the Arbiter of Nations and Kings., • " But, Portuguese, it is not enough to have con quered once, it is necessary, for the preservation of liberty, to oppose an insurmountable barrier to, the fresh exertions of the insatiable NAPOLEON. En couraged by his victories in Italy ands Germany, and irritated by his defeats in Spain and Portugal, he assembles his, armies and orders them to cross the Pyrenees. He intends, like • a mountain torrent, to intindate with blood the provinces of, Spain; the sole asylum of the liberty ,of the Continent. He employs his whole force to avenge hiS Generals and his beaten and dis persed armies, Put flight or taken prisoners. No thing obstructs the exertions of a tyrant ; to dispeople France is of no moment to him, and he wantonly sacrifices alliser youth to satisfy his ambition. ' Fired cities, destroyed towns, neJcis ,covered With dead bodies, are sights perfectly indifferent lo the feelings of a Despot, who appreciates no other interests than those of a desperate familY. Such, Portuguese, is. the charaCter of bias:again:4 whom we must defend ourselveS. " What would beeothe of Portugal if the French Arnjies, after the conquest of Spain, .should enter our Provinces ? If a twelvemonth baCk, when they • entered our', country as friends, they . marked their . , steps with conflagrations, robberies, and crimes the: . most atrocious; if after they had usurped the preme power without opposition, they spoliate& the sacred temples, imposed enormous. ontributiOns; attacked the liberty, of individuals, sacked cities, fired towns, and- committed atrocities which only. belong to barbarous nations; what will not these .devastating armies perpetrate in a country, the in habitants of which gloriously declared, with one. ,voice, in favour of liberty incl independence, To arms, Portuguese to arms! necessity elraas the rising of the whole nation- in a mass; . arms in the strong hand of a deferider of the country, are de cisiiie instruments of triumph. Government provides for maintenance of the armies, and where the ordi nary resources of the public revenue is not cient, the donations cf subje&s, who know -honour ably to sacrifice to their country the property it re quires, supply the idefipiency. . Shall it- perhaps -be - said that we are not the descendants : of—those va liant Imsitanians w lid triumphed over the valour and perfuly Of the Roman armies. Were not the Arabs, inured -to •war, expelled from the kingdom by our forefathers ? Was it not oar - nation , which struck s the coast of Africa with terror, andestablish . -,......." `Vg have this day obtainEd a perfe& translatinrt led in the East a vast Empire ? . ~ .... , • )f the 14th, t ill, and 16th Bulletiiis4l4,At , klave we not known, at all times, bow to de &Tiny i the substance of' hie') we V4ve drid.44424-:ti, fend the Crown of our Sovereign, and our national lay. The inure we peru se th e e documents, the ? ' England, generous England, whose .“ pi -1 7.*: invincible squadrons render every Prnjea of invasion' more We' are convinced that the resistu4c'el(l4"Nt's 13uoNApaturE has wet with' is•of a rnost4A-una,i.;,-A-: an onieet of derision, have set us an example must imitate. lmpelled by the noble sti ture," and that, Ile feels that the iask he . has under:' vi l i c4 i w e . -.... m, of defending the liberty of Spain, and'oppoe ialiettis'mtiCh More difficult iheii be &uses ti;•!' Europe, kti`oWledge.' - The abuse which he unsparinglY h6 1 ,4;'" harrier to the genera} desolation of she sup p s with, firms, orde r=s . h er armies to march to iipciri all ranks and conditions of the gallant Spa- .li'e .us ' • . itiard%, 'atiord4'thetnost:`•deciSive 'prOof .--r b e •„ the .field of honour, and liberally . devotes her trea-. !. . , - .; . . ... - la•cm) ec- . :". ' . , , , ... opposed (not as we *4; told a few L iais r .no l uari ..:,sWes to the .! .,e;enLe of tile - Country ; we and iippii4ition Peper,:by the MOnks, and it Of the iii:; who are 'filch more -concerned' in that detnce should suffer ourselves to remain in inactivity and habitants of the towns Only) by the untrbigal SpatiLth ;qation. • • - , . . . .pa!riotiith e4sted !)ptfor alt*v m0i4115,- , to . prqvokr, wore StropglT the indignation and bartprity of thi conquerors? But yna will not hear these impreca tions, beca(ise they will go to linger out their lives far from you"; they will go to remote countries to serve for involuntary tools of ,the oppresSion and misery of Other nations, but you will see.them.leave your houses, torn from your clasping arms;. and in . yoking in vain the name of the country which'gave them birth: Vortuguese,—against a powerful and watchful enemy, indolence and inaaivity must not be ad 'pitted. If-you do-pot wish to be vile slaves ;if you . do` not wish to see ybur holy religion outraged, youi honour' defiled, your Wives insulted„ - yourinnocent children stabbed with French bayonets,-and the glory o f Portugal aurkibilated .for ever ; let us all haSten to meet the common enemy; let us join our arms with those of The honourable ,F.paniards and ✓ intrepid English ;. let ,us shew to. Europe that it is not alone which opposes an iron barrier to, the oppressor of her llberty. Let us be what we al..vays were, brave, intrepid, and invincible. Let our arms and our property be the guarantees of our indepeadenCe. It is better to sacrifice. our property to the liberty of the couthry, than to reserve it for' . the. -spoliation of our infamous oppressors. It is better tO fight for the independence of the nation, than to become 1;14ns : of the caprices of. a Tyrant., A nation, determined to be free, cannot be enslaved FROM THE FI?ENCH PALERS. F9LIRTEENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAN.) • ' • ARMY. MADRID, DEC. s.—The beginning of this Purer tin is giien in THE S ut.i of Thursday. It concluder! ihus:-- It would have been difficult.%) form a conception of the disorder itgit reigned in Madrid, if a great utthilkiof,pritimi arriving in succession, had not 4 , 0 ..,,,,) g iv o , ~ „ j ~ .the frightful .sccinel . .of every ciesC ' tiVtY, of i t h i th f that capital presented the sPec tacle. ~ .I.IIA Ilaht il intere6,l4l,,the.weets, ere6ted pa-- rapets 0;1:14 houses, barricades of hales of wool, and of cotton, had ,been fornied, the windows had. : been. stopped with' mattrasses. Thole ,of the inba bi,tants who despaired of a successful 'resistance, were :flying into the fields.; others, who had preserved South share of reason, and who preferred, appearing' in the midst :of - their" - property, before a. genero4 enetriy i 'tb aVarhionifig it to the pillage of ,their fel ! . 10*101t0111, tdelEndecl th4t they should not expOs9 tlierf;WNß!td l i viAult. ThUse who were Strang - . erg alti-M toviiirlintliO had nothing to lost, were for d afW4 2 f6", ti 4 -lit extremity, :accused the troops-ofTiTet ME' 61" . treason, and obiiged - thern to continue their fire. .' From this moment, me4i women 'and children , spread themselves about the streets .in perfect secu rity. 'The shops were open till elei.en o'clock,-7 All the citizens it thernklves to deStrOy I.4tebar.r.i -cades, and repave . the streets, the - Monks rokukrie4 -into their conyeOts, and in.apw hours Madiid pre:. tented the Most Oltraordinat'y contrast, a contrast in"; ,explicable to those trinacnittimed to the manners of great towns: SO' many men, who ,cannot conceal from_ thet*elves'what they would have .done ,iu 'Al milar circhinstance, express, their astonish:a:lent at the generosity of the French. ' Fitly itionsatia stand of arms have been giVen up, and tpo pieces of can 7 non are collected - at the Retiro. The anguish in Which the inhabitants of this wretched City 'have lived for these four'inontbs cannot 'bP described. - 7" The Jtinta was without influence; the most igno rant. and the maddest of Men had 'all the'POwer in their hands, and the people at every instant togssA` cred, or threatqued with the gallows; their Magi!' ' trates and :t beirfaeherals. - '-' - ' ' ,- -'The Genera 'oUrigade, Maison, has beet wound" .o::Getieral' ry,yere; who advanced ihip`rodentlY the 'rtiViitene l t efiring ceased; has beet? killed.-j 4 Twelve soldier have been killed,' and '5O ‘iloundea: This IOsS, so trifling for an event of so much inip9r.t.7; ance, is owing :_to tie smallness of the num4el (?).' troops .suffered 4. - engage ; it is owing besides r ViC must say, to the extreme cowardice of all those. tilF i i had 4thiS ia,t, 'r hands against us. ' ' , - ThF . aflllif , Bscording (wits' usual custom, l'a°. diliiii r eii . i' 2 ,kr ice Ten thousand fugitives, wh.,' 1ik8.1400 f o urgos. and 'Sornosierra; and 'of? siVit - LviAl4l 0 . d)) Army of Reserve, were ''?". the - 3`l,:ik . lt'hin hree leagues of Madrid'; but beit4 charged q a' picquet of dragoons, they fled, abati': . doning . 4o 'pjeceS Of 'cannon, and 6u oaissohs. t, A meritorious trait Cited.—An old Genera), re tire, , from the serviee, and aged 80. years, was' in h. house of Madrid, near the street of Alcala-a frOc tt Officer entered, and took up hi.-. quarters there; W 4l 'i' his party. . This - respe6tabie old Luau appeared belbre him, holding .a young girl by the. land, and o' l 4, q 'I am an old 'r-soltlier , --1 know- the 'rights and. .tie Isziltiou.ness of*ar---ih,fa is uky_datighter—lgi3 7 .e lici. vuo,ooo livres for her portion—save her bortokr , ' and be her husband.'' 'The young Oilicer7tools the old man, his faintly, and his house, under J2i* protettion. How culpable are they who expose'l_c_. many peaceful citizens, so 'many ' unfortunate iLr, habitants of a great capital, to so many misibr - - .. tunes. - . by any Power upon earth—a nation rising in mass is an irresistible force-. ' - It is thus, Portuguese,,that the Governors of 1 the Kingdom address you, in the name of that religion which they are bound to proteti in the name of the Sayereign for whom they are ready to sacrifice their lives, and in the name of the Country whose interests have been entrusted to therg by the virtuous Prince whose glory it is first of all to have diseortterted the projects of the most perfidious of men. " By thus addressing you, they perfOrin the first -of their duties, .skewing you the necessity of Op wit'hout delay, to the efforts of a barbarous' *Usurper; the whole forces of a valorOus They point out to you die . only way to preserve • the independence of these kingdoms, and they •will have the sweet satisfadion 'to reward, in the name of the Prince Regent our Lord, those of .his subje&s who shall 'distinguish themselves by heroic and patricide deeds. " Death„desolation, and captivity you 'must ex pea from the invasion of your barbarolis enemy : honour; glory, and independence, will rewaid - Your . heroism. It <would be an insult to a gallant nation to propose the alternative. to choose. Let us bait e r. t o the field of g lory.- ,Tlt. ita ‘.. 1 u3 on you : your Prince observes;and your allies invite you. . . • Death or viaory is the motto of our good neighbours. A life without honour has no value. To have defended and liberated our native country' is the sweetest of all pleasures. - Jo AD •ANTONIO SLIDER DE MENDOPZA. " Palace of Government, the gth pec. 18oS." NAVAL N EWS. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Arrived the Eagle,. of "/.1 ,kk l us, .fro w : the Mediterranean ; Medusa Frigate, .from the Westward; Emerald Frigate, from a cruizei. 'forAian and .Sivallow Sloops of War, from Spiiin `Cirksies Sloop'of War, from Falmouth ; and Martial .4.im.-brig, from the Westward ; the Samuel, Capt. ClafmsToNE,- frOM Valencia, bound to London, put .in:fo refit, being leaky, and having split her sails in the late gales; Raven Sloop of War, from Jamaica; . she has on board upwards of ten tons of dollars ; also the Dexterous and Fervent Gan-brigs, from the Coast of Spain. . The Scorpiort,Sloop of War, from Corunna,, brings intelligence that the British and Spanish Troops.have jciined,, anti that no accounts had been received there of the-cpture of Madrid by the French. - . Arrived 'the Brig Fora, of Leith, Capt. Jon MAsoN, from Dublin ; laden 'with provisions, bound to London, captured on Sunday last by the Clarisse • French Lugger - Privateer, - of t 6 guns, and re-taken on the following day by the Entreprenaiite Cutter.,. The 'Clarisse sailed on Friday last train St. Maloes, in company with five . other Luggers, and two Brig Privateers; the two latter, according to the accounts, received from the prisoners taken in the cora, were destined to cruize ofKape Finisterre, and the Lug gers in the Channel. The Narcissus and. Naiad - Frigates have captured, L o tlie Westward, a French Corvette, of 16. guns, and a Ship Letter ,of Marque, both from France, bound to Marthlique. with provisions, whose arrival is hOurly exPead. I• • PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 3.o.—Arrived his Majesty's Ship U 1 daunted; With Dispatches lrbin. Lisbon. • Sailed his Majesty's' Ship Cornelia for the East Indies. •' • . , • . .. __The •Duke Of-Dantzic arrived at Segovia on tiO 3d., The Duke of Istria is gone in pursuit of 1 11 F division . of Pena, which having escaped ,fioni 11 '. battle of Tl'udelp,_ took the r o ut e of Guadalas4 o ° Florida Bianca, t a - d the Junta, have fled to 101e5. 1 ,_.' Th f e -- did . ,upt.,.tli nit t "themselves in safety in EP 3t i town 'either, as f.t nave gone to take refuge with the En 4 !siLL,tir,', 3111 i -The' `00444„0f the English is shameful. On the. loth I\lofedtber they were at the Escurial to the number ()ION) men. They passed some days thero. They pretended they would do nothing less: than pass the Pyrenees, and come to the Garonne. Theft' troops are very One, and well disCiplined.., II'? Confidetteklkh i tyliich they had inspired the Sp niards is - lii?ionl a le. - Some hoped that this divi siotlbistif,V, . mosierra; others, that it would 'coil4 l ol , 'd4:o4 A e Capital ,W so dear an ally.- -- .' Scacisl3t:cre d t)ley Armed that the Emperor was at SoitiMetra, ,ien the English troops beat a re treat .:Ori the Escurial.' From thenc'e; cotnbining their march with the division which was at s'ai manca, they have taken their. Course towards th e sea. " _Arms, powder, and clothing - , they have given to us," said a Spaniard, " but their Soldiers came only to excite us, to lead us . astray, and to abandon us in the .critical moment." ~ But . ar O , you ignorani," answered the French Officer, ". i the most recent fads .of our history, ?. 'What l'ir4va - ': : they done _for the Stadtholder, ' for Sardinia, fob Austria ? , What have they done recently for Russia What have they done still more recently for Sweden. f They every where foment war; they distribute anus like poison ; but they shed their blood only for their dired and personal interests. Ekpeol nothing el c'' from their selfishness." " Still," replied the sO7 niard, " their cause was ours. ' Forty thousand ,EDg? lisp, added to our forces at Tudela, and at Espinosa, might have balapm4 the fortune of the war, an d saved Portugal.' . 041,k,a . present, that a o ur army of Blake on the .lertidtii 001 the centre, and that o f 1 Arragon; on.ilie right, dredestroyed i 'that Spain is almost etitir*: sokimi , ed, and that reason is abo ut _ to cotnpieteits submission, what is to become 0 1 Portual ? It is not at Lisbon that the English ought 16 defend themselves—they ought to have done 5i.),.. at Espinosa, at Burgos, at Tudela, :at Somosierra, and before Madrid." FlFickE NTH BULLETIN. ." MADAINIK . OI ‘ "His Majesty haa named the Genei'a i k r AVi T AI.ip , j g e :e.tiormont, General of D i.; II f vision. vision.. aiii.Se fbas been named Adjutant Coniinatridfilt ) .' 'I he a d ' ft, this .01 - ncer has b--: 3 despaird oti m bd3lo.l. .now out"of: danger. viP. c.'..(')unt Kr4itikici;.',V4otiei'ut tn.: l'unsn- lii,fit 1 101. `;' ~hough ill,'hns'iii , :% . 'ays wished to charge at the 11 03 • of hi . s caps. The Sieri B3becl6 and Wolygur6lci' Dmit, • DEC. 3 1 .-:—Sailed his Majesty's Ship Oar "fie!ia, Porlargrrs, and Perupian on a 'cruize ; and Wt.LucyandAtida, Captain cum 54INGS, for 4frica. Of La Lb . • ' i t] sa of , Of 4b ti) Aa or, •, t o , . to, • in] tf isl 'll Ire to( f ro, Rut P o , a od ti ne 1 4 . 11 - \vh, ti or earl . c dad• , • - ' • d bt a Je si th at OC 4! Qi n )4 ( tlll , (1 it a ra lo t v p Q ou !gt ti s 11,4 I I ,